There are many kinds of commerce I don’t know much about. I’m going to need help with figuring out what a weird city where the cost of living is extremely low is going to need to become productive. The industries I do know about are fairly unlikely to require proximity to a port, but even in that set.. a lot of them will want proximity to manufacturing and manufacturing in turn will want to be near a port?
Can you think of any reasons we couldn’t make the coordinated city’s counterpart to the FSP’s Statement of Intent contract legally binding, imposing large fines on anyone who fails to keep to their commitment? (while attempting to provide exceptions for people who can prove they were not in control of whatever kept them from keeping their commitment, where possible) Without that, I’d doubt those commitments will amount to much.
For a lot of people a scheme like this will be the only hope they’ll ever have of owning (a share in) any urban property, if they can be convinced of the beneficence of the reallocation algorithms (I imagine there will be many opportunities to test them before building a fully coordinated city), I don’t really understand what it is about the FSP that libertarians find so exciting, but I feel like coordinated city makes more concrete promises of immediate and long-term QoL than the FSP ever did. Note, the allocator includes the promise of finding ourselves surrounded by like-minded individuals
Can you think of any reasons we couldn’t make the coordinated city’s counterpart to the FSP’s Statement of Intent contract legally binding, imposing large fines on anyone who fails to keep to their commitment?
Because then even fewer people would sign it. And the remaining ones will be looking for loopholes.
For a lot of people a scheme like this will be the only hope they’ll ever have of owning (a share in) any urban property
Unfortunately, those would be most scared of the “large fines”.
They have very little to be afraid of if their commitment is true, and if it’s not, we don’t want it. The commitment thing isn’t just a marketing stunt. It’s a viability survey. The data has to be good.
I guess I should add, on top of the process for forgiving commitments under unavoidable mitigating circumstances, there should be a process for deciding whether the city met its part of the bargain. If the facilities are not what was promised, fines must be reduced or erased.
There are many kinds of commerce I don’t know much about. I’m going to need help with figuring out what a weird city where the cost of living is extremely low is going to need to become productive. The industries I do know about are fairly unlikely to require proximity to a port, but even in that set.. a lot of them will want proximity to manufacturing and manufacturing in turn will want to be near a port?
Can you think of any reasons we couldn’t make the coordinated city’s counterpart to the FSP’s Statement of Intent contract legally binding, imposing large fines on anyone who fails to keep to their commitment? (while attempting to provide exceptions for people who can prove they were not in control of whatever kept them from keeping their commitment, where possible) Without that, I’d doubt those commitments will amount to much.
For a lot of people a scheme like this will be the only hope they’ll ever have of owning (a share in) any urban property, if they can be convinced of the beneficence of the reallocation algorithms (I imagine there will be many opportunities to test them before building a fully coordinated city), I don’t really understand what it is about the FSP that libertarians find so exciting, but I feel like coordinated city makes more concrete promises of immediate and long-term QoL than the FSP ever did. Note, the allocator includes the promise of finding ourselves surrounded by like-minded individuals
Because then even fewer people would sign it. And the remaining ones will be looking for loopholes.
Unfortunately, those would be most scared of the “large fines”.
They have very little to be afraid of if their commitment is true, and if it’s not, we don’t want it. The commitment thing isn’t just a marketing stunt. It’s a viability survey. The data has to be good.
I guess I should add, on top of the process for forgiving commitments under unavoidable mitigating circumstances, there should be a process for deciding whether the city met its part of the bargain. If the facilities are not what was promised, fines must be reduced or erased.